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Birthday celebration with K’s family

We had Kristin’s family over today to celebrate Jude & Vivienne’s birthday. While birthdays have never been my creative thing (probably because of the same space issues that made me dislike hosting in general in NY) Kristin wanted to bring Vivi’s current favorite book into the celebration. Stick Man is actually a Christmas book, so it’s funny that they’re SO into it right now, but two-year-olds; we listened to Christmas carols on the way to preschool almost till February, so it is what it is.

No story to tell here, just a lovely afternoon with aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents. But I have plenty of photos.

She refused to nap today, and I told her she couldn’t have cake unless she did, so this was her attempt

Trying to stick their fingers into the frosting. I honestly didn’t realize that they matched until I looked at this photo after the fact

I finally got to meet Megan’s twins! And they both fell asleep for me 🙂

This is what happens when you try to get a picture with all of the grandkids. Literally no one is looking at the camera!